event in washington as we said. and cnn's rachel crane is in new york. so covering it on many different angles. miguel, i want to start with you. what are you seeing and hearing there in the early hours of this? >> i want to give you a sense. this really just got under way in earnest. it's part rock concert going on right now. part teaching which is going on in tents near here. this is earth day as well. there's a lot of earth science being done here and discussed here, and it's part protest. they say that this is a nonpartisan event, but there's a hard edge of protest from where we are. we are in the shadow of the washington monumen. if you come around this way, we're in the backyard of the white house right over there. show us your signs! the signs here are some of the more creative that we've seen, and they are everywhere. it's a very, very soggy day in washington, but it doesn't seem